Personally I doubt <Tal> would misremember this game, since according to both him and his games collector <Hilary Thomas>, it was this win that helped put <Daugava> into first place, and thus the Final Round: http://www.olimpbase.org/1964sc/196...

But in fact, Daugava finished 2d and Kalev 3d, meaning that Daugava went on to the final round and Kalev didn't.

Finally, <Thomas> even gives the "Adjudicated analysis line" that the judges used to demonstrate that white had what amounted to a forced win.

<Thomas> doesn't say who the Adjudicators were, or why the game had to be adjudicated, but he does give the "Adjudicated line."

These Club/Republic team championships were normally so tightly scheduled that there was no breaks from start to finish of the events. One round a day, no day or days available to play adjournments.

That's probably why the game was adjudicated- no time left in the day to finish, no extra day to play out an adjournment- it might be a reason why <Keres> may have accepted the Adjudication instead of complained about it, although <Thomas> doesn't say anything about that.

WCC Editing Project: Thanks <whiteshark>, that will be valuable additional supporting data if the correction slip I sent is refused.

I think the preponderance of data suggests the score should be <1-0>.

As mentioned in my previous post, it was the fact that <Hilary Thomas> actually supplied the "Adjudication line," supposedly demonstrating a winning or won game for white, that convinced me that <Tal> is remembering this game result accurately.

Zonszein: Tal won this game.
He speaks about it in his book Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (page 246)
It's true that Tal had negative score against Keres but it needs to be taken into consideration that he lost twice in Curaçao when he was very very ill.
And anyway by 1962 Keres was the best player in the world. Petrosian won the Candidates because they were cheating!!

Strelets: Between the judges' adjudication line and Tal's as-yet-unequaled chess autobiography (he held Keres in extremely high regard as a chess player and as a person, something he makes readily apparent in "Life and Games . . .") it's probably safe to call this a win for White.

Petrosian did not lose a single game on his way to win the World Championship match with Botvinnik. No World Champ can claim that.

He crushed Bobby in Curaçao. *Well so did a lot of other guys. Bobby was the punching bag. Bobby lost freaking 7
games. I bet you didn't know that.

Petrosian went on win the World championship again in 1966. Only the Best of the best of any sport or game can defend their title successfully. Bobby couldn't do it neither could Tal, Smyslov, Spassky, Capablanca ..

Zonszein: As Fischer pointed out long ago, these people (Petrosian, Keres and Geller) made draws between them in often less than 20 moves whereas he was faced to well prepared opponents etc etc..
Even Spassky once said that if he had qualified to the tournament in Curaçao then Keres would have become champion in 1963
Petrosian didn't loose. But how could he if Keres and Geller didn't even try to beat him?

Petrosianic: <Zonszein>: <As Fischer pointed out long ago, these people (Petrosian, Keres and Geller) made draws between them in often less than 20 moves whereas he was faced to well prepared opponents etc etc..>

It was a fairly typical tournament, yes. The top players drew with each other and beat up on the weakies. What made this tournament remarkable is that Fischer was one of the weakies.

Of course, Fischer didn't claim it was the draws that beat him, he claimed it was Korchnoi throwing games to the others that did it. Even Fischer seems to have quietly abandoned that claim shortly after he made it. At least Korchnoi said that he and Fischer had good relations afterwards until Korchnoi dared to play for the world title.

<Petrosian didn't loose. But how could he if Keres and Geller didn't even try to beat him?>

Odd that Keres and Geller both managed to lose.

<On pure chess level, Fischer should have been the only foreigner in Curaçao. Stein and Spassky should have been there (instead of Benko and Filip)>

Stein, definitely (he actually qualified). But why Spassky, and not Smyslov? Spassky was at a rather low point in his career until 1964.

Zonszein: In his book Chess Is My Life Korchnoi claims that at the time the Russian press (whatever that meant ...)published and "antisemitic" article called "Spassky should play in Curaçao (or was it Stocholm?)
"Based on what? Don't know
(It was, it seems, an article against Stein)
Spassky had a mediocre year indeed. But remember his famous victories in the King Gambit against both Bronstein and Fischer.
And BTW, Fischer played the Interzonal in 1970 without participating in the USA championships. So, why not Spassky in 1962? LOL

jerseybob: Zonszein: In the Interzonal days, each zone(U.S.,Soviet, etc) could decide whom to send, that decision wasn't imposed from on high by FIDE. Fischer's participation in '70 was irregular, for sure, based on Benko relinquishing his seat.

ughaibu: "by 1962 Keres was the best player in the world. Petrosian won the Candidates because they were cheating"

Sadly, it seems to be a serious post. But if it were true that "they" were cheating, then the considerations that apply to Petrosian would apply to Keres, as he was one of "them". So, either Petrosian still was above Keres, or Keres wasn't involved in the cheating.

Botvinnik stated that Geller was the world's strongest player, no need to go into when he said it because we can assume that the reason he said it was his personal negative score against Geller. But Geller also came below Petrosian at Curacao, so Petrosian must have been cheating alone.

I suppose he could have been cheating with Fischer, after all, how else can we explain Fischer's loss to him? Not to mention their short draws and agreeing draws in positions that were pretty much won for Petrosian.

And of course he was cheating, all those draws against Spassky in 1966, not winning a string of tournaments as champion and basically being too fat and a commie.

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